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Watertown, Ma, Us

LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONLisp, Ruby, Node.js, RethinkDB, ElasticSearch, RDS, Docker, AWS, Linode, TsuruLarge scale distributed translation system to translate text, docx, pptx, websites, and proxy entire websites for complete site translations to and from more than 1600 languages. This system allows users to fully customize their translations to be anything they would desire and is automatically scalable based on load. The system is running out of several cities from various datacenter providers around the world.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------VOICE TO VOICE TRANSLATIONLisp, Ruby, Java, CouchDB, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Adhearsion, and AsteriskSIP based voice to voice translation system. This system allows users to call into a conference calling system system where each person in the call can select their language of choice and the whole conversation is automatically translated to and from their language. For example, you can have three people on a conference call, one speaking in Spanish another speaking English and yet another speaking Arabic. The English speaker can then speak in english and it will translate to Spanish to the Spanish speaker and Arabic to the Arabic speaker. It will do this to and from all the languages involved in the conference call allowing them all to have a conversation in their own language.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------VIDEO TRANSCODINGRuby, ElasticSearch, Javascript video playerLarge scale distributed video transcoding system to transcode video from various formats for use on the web using variable bitrate switching and detection. It takes a video source and converts it to several different formats and bitrates. It will then play the best possible video for any client based on platform and bandwidth available to optimize the viewer’s experience.

Inventory Automation System Ruby, Rails, CouchDB, MySQL, and HandHeld scanners toautomate inventory tasks.Digital Signage Ruby, Rails, and CouchDB to display signage and other information at the stores like weather and special promotions.Reporting System Ruby, Rails, MySQL, MSAnalytics to create realtime reporting that enabled business to make accurate and timely decisions.

Designed & developed distributed framework core that powers our products.Design, development & maintenance of all proprietary websites – using ASP/ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, SQL Design, maintain, & optimize SQL 2000 databases

Design, development & maintenance of all proprietary websites using ASP/ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, SQLDesign, maintain, & optimize SQL 2000 databasesDevelopment & maintenance of in-house programs software using C# & VB.NET